White American elites are always ready to turn a Black intellectual into a mouthpiece for their political agenda.
is asking Black people to show up to Zoom meetings on time. The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss called such terms “floating signifiers”: bits of phraseology that are “void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning.” The mainstreaming of Kendi’s brand of anti-racism has made “racism” into a word so plastic as to have lost all descriptive power — and with it all moral magnitude.
A charitable reader might argue that the wonkish sensibilities of “Stamped” reflected the wonkish Obama years, while Kendi’s turn to a personalized politics of individual racism reflected widespread anxieties about the return of old-fashioned bigotry under Donald Trump.
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